Infertility no longer problem says Dr V Sujata

Vijayawada: No woman need to suffer due to infertility keeping in view the advanced medical science and technology, said noted fertility specialist Dr V Sujata while addressing the help education programme at Vasavya Nursing Home here on Saturday.

One in every six couples is facing the problem of infertility, she said and advised the couples to consult the doctor if the woman did not conceive in one year though they are not using any family planning methods.

Dr Sujata said that 40 to 50 per cent of the problem lies in women and of late, the problem is found in men also.

According to her, change of life style, late marriages, alcoholism, smoking and obesity could be the prominent reasons for infertility, she said.

She expressed concern over the growing infertility rate in the country in general and in the state in particular. “A recent survey found that the average national fertility rate is 2.5 whereas the fertility rate in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana is only 1.8,” she averred.

Referring to the infertility among women, Dr Sujata said that hormonal imbalance, PCOS, thyroid problems, pelvic inflammation and fibroids are the reasons in addition to poor physical exercise, stress and obesity among women.

Among men, alcoholism, smoking, obesity, low count of sperm and also poor movement of sperm and stress are the reasons, she said and added that varicocele is also causing poor production of sperm.

Elaborating on the latest medical science, she said that there is medical and surgical treatment apart from changing life style among men and women. “If it does not work, there is possibility of assisted reproductive technology,” she said.

Methods like IVF, frozen embryo transfer, intracytoplasmic sperm injection are available these days, Dr Sujata said.